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    Meant to post this when the Scott Adams/Dilbert story broke

    Who are far right celebrities that you are aware of?

    I think Jon Voight is probably the granddaddy of them all with James Woods not far behind

    There's Ted Nugent for sure

    Hercules' Kevin Sorbo and Lois & Clark's Dean Cain

    Scott Baio had his moment at the RNC, I haven't heard anything from him since

    I'd add Kanye West but he more seems to be just losing his mind

    I'm pretty sure that Drew Carey, Tim Allen and Kelsey Grammer are conservative Republicans (which is fine) but as far as I know none of them went off the deep end

    Roseanne Barr seemed to go full far right

    Growing Pains Kirk Cameron is super religious, but I've never heard him comment on anything other than religion (it would just be an assumption that someone that religious is far right)

    The pandemic opened the doors to some anti-vax, conspiracy minded celebs which doesn't necessarily have anything to do with politics

    Those would include:

    Person of Interest's Jim Caviezel
    Black Panther Letitia Wright
    Lost's Evangeline Lilly

    Think of anyone else?
     
    Optimus Prime said:
    Guess this can go here

    I haven’t heard anything political at from him
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    Canada hockey legend Wayne Gretzky was already facing a strained relationship with the Canadian public when he emerged from the tunnel at his country’s 4 Nations Face-Off final against the United States in Boston last week.

    But that strain reached a full-on breaking point on Thursday night when Gretzky gave an eager thumbs up to the US players and wore no Canadian colors to a game where he was his country’s honorary team captain.

    Gretzky’s perceived disloyalty to his home country, where hockey is almost a national religion, may have caused an uproar among Canadians even at the best of times.

    But his actions were interpreted by many as traitorous amid heightened nationalism as Donald Trumpthreatens a trade war and muses about making Canada the 51st state.

    Regardless of Gretzky’s reputation, some observers say the reactions are proof that many Canadians could be looking for their sports heroes to take a stronger stance on Trump.


    “Observers of Canadian hockey look at Wayne Gretzky as essentially an immortal, a god, right? But the truth is, his relationship to the Canadian hockey public has been very different than say it was in 2002,” says Taylor McKee, an assistant professor of sports management at Brock University in St Catharines, Ontario.

    In 2002, Gretzky was the executive director of Canada’s gold medal-winning Olympic hockey team in Salt Lake City. There he was considered “Mr Canada,” says McKee. Canadians who want that version of him to emerge at a time when there are external threats to the country, were left disappointed by Gretzky, he says.

    “They wanted a guy who was willing to stand up there and take bullets for the team,” he says. “Instead, they got the guy they saw essentially as a saboteur, or certainly someone they couldn’t trust.”……..

    www.theguardian.com

    Et tu, Wayne: Gretzky’s legacy in Canada takes hit over 4 Nations snub

    The hockey hero may have torpedoed a once-bulletproof image in Canada by fraternizing with Donald Trump at the worst time imaginable
    www.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com

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    …….Here is a man who could have used his “soft” power to educate Trump on the inviolability of this country’s sovereignty. Instead, he revealed his true colours (yes, with a “u”) are red, white and blue.

    Gretzky was widely booed in pubs that night, slammed as a traitor and a sellout. In the flap that ensued, there were calls to remove his statue from outside Rogers Place in Edmonton.

    A few days ago, the statue was smeared with feces. An online petition demanding that the city of Edmonton rename Wayne Gretzky Drive had garnered more than 13,000 signatures as of Wednesday.

    Others have expressed outrage that in 2009, when Gretzky was awarded this country’s highest civilian honour, Companion of the Order of Canada, he didn’t bother to come home to collect it. He still hasn’t.

    Over these past few weeks and after Trump’s inflammatory pronouncements, has Gretzky made any effort to explain or clarify himself or his beliefs, or defend his homeland?

    No, instead he has a) let his buddy Trump, on his social media website Truth Social, offer a tepid defence of Gretzky’s “low-key” support of Canada remaining a separate nation, while b) hiding behind wife Janet’s skirts.

    “I have never met anyone who is more proud to be a Canadian, and it has broken his heart to read and see the mean comments,” she said in an Instagram post that has since been deleted.

    Nor did it help Gretzky’s cause that among those rushing to his defence was the Canadian-born former NHL-er and fellow Trump disciple Bobby Orr.………

    www.theguardian.com

    Wayne Gretzky was a Canadian hero. His pro-Trump rebrand is a betrayal

    While Trump muses about annexing the US’s neighbor, the NHL star has remained quiet. My fellow Canadians are furious
    www.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com
     
    For what it’s worth and Triple H is commenting on the ‘special sauce and charisma’ that Trump has, which he does and the ‘Trump as wrestling heel’ comparison has certainly been made before

    triple H is married to Stephanie McMahon, daughter of dept of education secretary Linda McMahon
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    WWE chief content officer Paul “Triple H” Levesque has showered praise on Donald Trump, calling the current US president a “genius” and “charismatic in so many ways”.

    The WWE and Levesque are closely connected to the Trump administration as the current education secretary is Linda McMahon, the estranged wife of Vince McMahon, the mogul of the famed wrestling company who quit in 2023 following serious sexual abuse allegations.

    WWE is now owned by TKO Group Holdings – an umbrella company that also owns UFC. Trump regularly attends the latter’s events and has previously been heavily featured on WWE television, with his last appearance occurring in 2013.

    Ahead of WrestleMania 41, taking place in Las Vegas between 19 and 20 April, Levesque made a rare public comment about the president, praising him for his ability to generate interest around himself.

    Speaking to the Flagrant podcast the 55-year-old said: “I think Trump’s ability as an orator – like him or hate him – the way he does it, he's charismatic in so many ways.

    “I think he likes getting under people’s skin. I think he likes generating heat the way he does. It’s amazing and it’s genius and it worked in our business. Do I think he got that from our business? I think he innately understands that. It’s been his whole life.”

    Continuing he said: “There’s a lot of billionaires in the world – why was he the most famous one? Why was he the one that was in People Magazine every week and with everybody under the sun? Why was he seen as the epitome of that billionaire status? Because of his charisma and his character and who he is, and the way he can speak about it and do all those things. He just captivates people.”………

    www.independent.co.uk

    WWE’s Triple H makes rare comment on ‘genius’ Trump

    ‘I think he likes generating heat the way he does,’ said the former wrestler
    www.independent.co.uk www.independent.co.uk
     
    Wrestling superstar Roman Reigns has expressed his support for Donald Trump ahead of his headlining turn at WrestleMania this weekend.

    The former WWE champion opened up about his political views in an interview with Vanity Fair, and is the latest in a series of sports entertainment stars to give the president his backing.

    Speaking ahead of Saturday’s clash with CM Punk and Seth Rollins in Las Vegas, the 39 year-old said: “I support our president. Trump is one of those guys where he’s got a vast history and a huge background.

    “He’s been in entertainment. He’s been in big business, politics. At this point, I’m supporting a bright future for our country. Positive and competent leadership.

    “For us to be what we’re supposed to be, to be a world leader and carry that respect and do what a world power like us should be doing.”……..

    www.independent.co.uk

    WWE star Roman Reigns reveals he supports Trump ahead of WrestleMania

    Wrestling superstar says he is a registered Democrat and considers himself a centrist but backs president to deliver ‘positive and competent leadership’
    www.independent.co.uk www.independent.co.uk
     
    Good lord, that’s the opposite of what Trump is doing. We’ve alienated our strongest allies.
     
    So I'm not saying that Bill Maher is far right, he hasn't had a Dennis Miller like instant transformation but despite his denials he is drifting that way

    And the drifting is due to two main issues that caused a lot of people to go to the far right

    1. The pandemic- He was very anti mask, anti-quarantine, anti-school closings. he was in the "if you're healthy you'll be fine" camp

    2. "Woke" - He hates everything 'woke' and isn't shy about saying so

    He is getting blasted for his dinner date with Trump that Kid Rock set up



    Basically Trump isn't the crazed madman he plays on TV and was very nice, charming and gracious to him

    Which no one said Trump wasn't when the situation calls for it, Maher has said so himself years ago about meeting Trump in the 90s

    Trump is a lot of those things but some of those things are shrewd, cunning and calculating

    And he calculated that there was a benefit to nice dinner with Maher and having one of his biggest critics tell his audience, "not that bad at all"

    Consensus his Trump played Maher like a fiddle

    Oh, and Maher's guest immediately after the above clip? ..................Steve Bannon
     
    Larry David has written a long spoof essay in the New York Times in response to Bill Maher’s recent glowing account of his dinner with President Trump in the White House.

    The essay, entitled My Dinner With Adolf, purports to be written by someone who was “a vocal critic of his on the radio from the beginning, pretty much predicting everything he was going to do on the road to dictatorship”. But he agrees to dine with the Führer because he “concluded that hate gets us nowhere. I knew I couldn’t change his views, but we need to talk to the other side”.

    The dinner proves an eye-opening success, with the author much tickled by Hitler’s jokes, struck by his warmth and humanity and impressed by his skills as an agony uncle. As he leaves, he tells Hitler he’s pleased he came. “‘Although we disagree on many issues, it doesn’t mean that we have to hate each other.’ And with that, I gave him a Nazi salute and walked out into the night.”

    The late-night pundit Bill Maher had dinner with the president on 31 March, and many predicted it would have been a combative meeting. Both men have been frank about this dislike of each other, with Trump calling Maher a “lowlife” and his show “dead”.

    But on the 11 April episode of his show, Real Time, Maher described the president as “gracious” and “much more self-aware than he lets on”.

    “Everything I’ve ever not liked about him was – I swear to God – absent, at least on this night with this guy,” said Maher. “He mostly steered the conversation to, ‘What do you think about this?’ I know: your mind is blown. So is mine.”

    He added: “A crazy person doesn’t live in the White House. A person who plays a crazy person on TV a lot lives there, which I know is forked up. It’s just not as forked up as I thought it was.”

    In his essay, David closely mirrors Maher’s tone, saying that one of his own jokes “amused him to no end, and I realised I’d never seen him laugh before. Suddenly he seemed so human. Here I was, prepared to meet Hitler, the one I’d seen and heard – the public Hitler. But this private Hitler was a completely different animal. And oddly enough, this one seemed more authentic, like this was the real Hitler. The whole thing had my head spinning.”.............

    www.theguardian.com

    ‘I must say, mein Führer, I’m so thankful I came’: Larry David spoofs Bill Maher’s fawning White House visit with Trump

    Essay describes a surprise invitation in 1939 to a previously vocal critic for dinner with the Nazi leader, where ‘suddenly he seemed so human’
    www.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com

    www.nytimes.com

    Opinion | Larry David: My Dinner With Adolf

    When a private meeting goes unexpectedly.
    www.nytimes.com www.nytimes.com
     

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